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GENERAL ENGLISH RESOURCES

Encyclopedia Brittanica Online
With access to four encyclopedias-Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia- Britannica Online is a site for all ages. Users can locate information quickly by using Boolean operators; browsing A-Z; or typing in words, phrases, or questions to receive a list of relevance-ranked articles with related links.

 Symbolism Dictionary
 Look up a symbol and find its meaning. "This symbolism dictionary endeavors to provide some possible cultural significances of various symbols, and suggest ways in which those symbols may have been used in context."  You may go to the Art Page to see how artists have used symbolism in their art.

Symbols.Com
for common graphic symbols which represent words, ideas, concepts and people are offered here.

Authors, Writers, Poets, and Literary People on the Web
A unique collection of links from a great librarian in a California high school to resources related to the individual writers, poets, dramatists, novelists, and others who create literature of all types.

Etymology Online
A wide variety of information (files) realted to the origins and development of the English language. Includes current usage.

Internet Bibliographic Citation Style
When you use information obtained from an electronic source, such as the World Wide Web or Internet, you need to provide a citation in your bibliography or references section. This page tells you how to cite a number of the most common types of Internet resources.
Just go to this site and click

College Bound Reading List
Compiled by Arrowhead Library System, an extensive reading list for those headed for college.

Novelist
Provides access to over 100,000 fiction titles. Search options include author, title, description, genre, award, reviews, and publishers. Also includes feature articles, book discussion guides, and BookTalks.  Updated monthly.

AUTHOR & CRITICAL INFORMATION 

MARVEL! Maine's Virtual Library

or use the following from MARVEL!:

Contemporary Authors
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields.

 Contemporary Literary Criticism
Critical and biographical essays on authors currently living or who died after 1959. CLC Select may be searched separately or simultaneously with Contemporary Authors and the Dictionary of Literary Biography

Dictionary of Literary Biography   
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world"s most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Literature Resource Center
Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer"s Series includes signed essays and literary genres. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.

Scribner's Writers Series
Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres from a number of their print literature series.  This is great for an in-depth look at a single author or genre.  Allows A_Z, in-depth search by language, gender, time period, genre, and gives research idea starting points.

 Twayne's Author Series
Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.  Use A-Z search from list of names of most well-known authors, in-depth search, special topics, and/or World, British, or United States authors.

 The Writer's Almanac®
Web page and resources from Garrison Keillor's daily program of poetry and history, heard each day on public radio stations                   throughout the country. Each day's program is about five minutes long. Read and hear the program, including full-text poetry.

SHAKESPEARE

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare   This is an online version of the complete works of William Shakespeare, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Also includes links to other Internet information resources related to Shakespeare, his life and times.

The Shakespeare Web
An interactive, commercial hypermedia environment dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding of Shakespeare's plays and other works. Includes information on current performances of the plays.


Ms. Lehto's Heart of Darkness Project:

Dictionary of Literary Biography   
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world"s most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Literature Resource Center
Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer"s Series includes signed essays and literary genres. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors.

Scribner's Writers Series
Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres from a number of their print literature series.  This is great for an in-depth look at a single author or genre.  Allows A_Z, in-depth search by language, gender, time period, genre, and gives research idea starting points.

 Twayne's Author Series
Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.  Use A-Z search from list of names of most well-known authors, in-depth search, special topics, and/or World, British, or United States authors.

Mrs. Larsen's American Authors Assignment

Stories of the Dreaming - Introduction
     Storytelling is an integral part of life for Indigenous Australians. ...These are stories of the history and culture of the people,                      handed down in this way since the beginning of time, since the Dreamtime."  Go to "Story list" at bottom.

History of American Literature
   A handy way to understand how American Literatire evolved as our nation grew from its origins.

Literary Resources-American
  Another superb collection of Internet resources for the study of American Literature, gathered by Professor Jack Lynch,                           University of Pennsylvania.

     

Mrs. Larsen's Crucible Project
The Salem Witchcraft Trials
Puritans
A Brief History of Witchcraft Persecutions Before Salem
Witchcraft in Early Colonial America
Salem Witch Trials

Mrs. Larsen's 1920s Project    Mrs. Larsen's 1920s Project

MARVEL! Maine's Virtual Library
Choose Dictionaries and Encyclopedias from the yellow list and The Encyclopedia Britannica online edition.  Type in your search term.

20th Century History By the Decades (1920s)
Information resources of many different types on the history of the 1920s.  By clicking on the chart at the top of the page you can find  information organized according to the each of the decades.

USinfo.com
Various events pertinent to the 1920s.  Type your topic and "+ 1920s" in the search box and hit "Enter".
 

American Memory at the Library of Congress
An excellent resource for visual items, audio from our history.





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